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Modernisation of Official Statistics Lidia Bratanova,
Director, UNECE Statistical Division
Work of the UNECE High Level Group on
Modernisation of Official Statistics
About the HLG-MOS
• Created by the CES Bureau in 2010 – To oversee and coordinate international work relating
to the modernisation of official statistics
• Strategic vision endorsed by CES in 2011/2012
• 11 heads of statistical organizations – Australia, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Republic of Korea, Slovenia, Ireland, Eurostat, OECD, UNECE
• Annual projects in priority areas
• Activities are voluntary and demand driven
Projects
Conference of
European Statisticians
Standards
HLG-MOS
Projects
Products
& Sources
Modernisation Committees
Production
& Methods
Organisational
Framework &
Evaluation
Executive
Board
CSPA
Implementation
Group
Achievements
• GSBPM, GSIM, GAMSO, CSPA, Big Data
• Priorities in 2015
– CSPA implementation – tools to help implementers
– Big Data experiments – exploring new data sources
• Increasingly global engagement
– 600 people across 50 countries involved in HLG-MOS activities
7 Sandbox Experiment Teams
75 people from 25 countries / organisations
3 Task Teams
1 Project Manager 2 Coordinators
Facilitation and
logistics
Opportunities
• Sandbox
The Irish Centre for High-end Computing hosts the UNECE ‘Sandbox’ a state of the art shared computing environment for international collaboration
• Open to all statistical organisations
Current activities
• Data integration
• Linked open metadata
• Modernisation roadmap and maturity model
• CSPA implementation
• Risk management
• Machine learning
• …
More about data integration
• International collaboration project
• Workpackage 3: Integrating geospatial and statistical information: Colombia, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, Serbia - Others welcome!
• Activities: – Review other international work to identify synergies
– Create an inventory of relevant sources and projects
– Develop proposals on information which could be produced by integrating statistical and geographical information
– Research methodologies
– Conduct some experiments and pilots
Summary
• Linking statistical and geospatial data is becoming increasingly important
• Location can provide the linking variable for integrating new types of data
• The work of the HLG-MOS reflects the growing importance of geospatial data
• More information: – www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/hlgbas
– LinkedIn group: “Modernising Official Statistics”
Building a global network
CES Seminar : Geospatial Information Services based on Official Statistics
•Global and international dimensions: challenges arising from UN-GGIM, INSPIRE (in Europe)
•National experiences and practices
•The seminar will consider:
Development of international spatial reference framework
Conceptual framework for integration of geospatial and statistical data
Cooperation between NSO and mapping agencies